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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:22:12 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Has the foretold fragmentation of Linux begun?
Message-ID:  <20020819192212.GF1645@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20020819155109.GC89852@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20020819155109.GC89852@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On 2002-08-19 16:51 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> I think it's interesting that we have Red Hat, United Linux (with
> the LSB stamp?), and now Sun rolling their own.

There's nothing wrong with having many Linux distributions.  The fact
that Sun rolls their own distribution or that Redhat, Suse, Debian,
"you name it", wants to write their own code on top of the Linux
kernel[1] does not by any means imply that there is One True Way[TM]
to do things in the Linux world.

> It seems that this was part of the plan all along of these big
> corporations, and this could lead to the exact same kind of
> fragmentation that brought down Unix in the first place.

Maybe.  I am not sure.  I don't really feel that anyone could prove
something like this, without something equivalent to the infamous
"Halloween Documents" leaking from within one of these big corps.

- Giorgos


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